IT’S long been a cliche, the symbiosis between craft beer and bearded blokes. Women’s role in brewing is so often discounted. Hence it tickles ToM that the female beery backlash between November 21 and December ...
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Turkey Raan and a Taj Toddy sprinkle spice on Dishoom’s Christmas Menu
DISHOOM love the celebratory centrepiece nature of a Raan, The lamb version can be traced back to Alexander the Great’s battles in India. Come Christmas they adapt the formula – low-cooked leg shredded into a ...
HATCH HOSTS EVERGREEN: A FESTIVAL OF WINTER AND CHRISTMAS
WHAT a busy festive season it is already. Hot – or should that be blooming cold – on the heels of our round-up of all the jolly alternatives to the official Christmas Markets comes news ...
Ivy unveils Decadent Snowball Fight dessert and ‘poles apart’ Terraces
NO indication from the weather reports that we’d be encountering a ‘Snowball Fight’ this early before Christmas. Still as The Ivy heads for the holly the Spinningfields winter palace couldn’t resist adding a dessert of ...
New brasserie Embankment Kitchen helmed by Marika from MasterChef
MASTERCHEF in its present formats has been running since 2005. The stress levels never lessen… and we’re just watching from the couch. For every Simon Wood (WOOD, First Street) or Matt Healy (Foundry, Leeds) who ...
Spicy sprout bhaji bun is Bundobust’s festive fund-raiser
THE Bundobust Christmas menu famously transforms the much-maligned sprout into a spicy festive centrepiece. This year, to help the homeless the Indian veggie/craft beer specialist have taken iton step further by putting their Sprout Bhaji ...
Edinburgh Castle – gorgeous reborn Ancoats boozer that sets the bar high
HERE at ToM we love a dish with a good backstory. The name of what may become the Edinburgh Castle’s signature plateful is enticing enough: ‘Bees Wax Aged Beef with Onions Tomatoes, Bone Marrow and ...
BOOK NOW FOR A BISTROTHEQUE DINNER WITH JEREMY LEE
THERE'S a rare treat for lovers of classic French cuisine coming up at CULTUREPLEX in the London Warehouse. The restaurant there, Bistrotheque, is launching a new event series, ‘A Book From My Kitchen’ on Monday, ...
How Natural Wines came of age – Creameries, Erst, Fox, Wolf and Kwas
CHORLTON'S The Creameries has just hosted a ‘Low Intervention Wine Fair’. Even a couple of years ago such a commercially-savvy celebration of so-called (it’s hard to pin a definition) 'Natural Wine' would have been unlikely. ...
ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET FOR LOCAL TRADERS TO LAUNCH AT KAMPUS
YOU’VE got to hand it to GRUB. They must be reeling after their new street food fair base at the Red Bank Project was broken into but it’s business as usual there this weekend and ...